Standard & Poor's credit rating for Qatar stands at AA- with negative outlook. Moody's credit rating for Qatar was last set at Aa3 with negative outlook. Fitch's credit rating for Qatar was last reported at AA- with negative outlook.

Imports to Qatar advanced 28.8 percent year-on-year to QAR 11.0 billion in December of 2017, as purchases went up electrical apparatus for line, telephone sets and parts thereof (62.5 percent) and other groups of commodities (40.2 percent). On the other hand, auto imports plunged 44.7 percent. The most important import partners were: the US (28.7 percent), China (13.6 percent), Germany (6.3 percent), India (5.1 percent) and the UK (5.0 percent).

The GDP of Qatar advanced 5.5 percent on quarter in the third quarter of 2017, well above a downwardly revised 0.2 percent growth in the previous three months. It is the strongest quarterly expansion since the third quarter of 2010 as the mining and quarrying sector surged 6.6 percent and the remaining one grew 4.5 percent.

Qatar's economy expanded 1.9 percent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2017, following a downwardly revised 0.3 percent growth in the previous period which was the weakest since the 2009 global crisis. The mining and quarrying sector, which includes oil and gas, edged up 0.2 percent after falling in the previous quarter amid a cut in output in December 2016 and sanctions imposed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt that disrupted transport links. Excluding mining and quarrying, the economy grew 3.6 percent. On a quarterly basis, the GDP advanced 5.5 percent, the most since the third quarter of 2010 and well above a downwardly revised 0.2 percent growth reported in Q2.

The Gross Domestic Product per capita in Qatar was last recorded at 118215.30 US dollars in 2016, when adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP). The GDP per Capita, in Qatar, when adjusted by Purchasing Power Parity is equivalent to 665 percent of the world's average.